Leon Benjamignan

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Working as an advisor & starting entrepreneurial projects has led to these accomplishments:

• Efficient and a team player: Consistent top performer in my Virtual Sales & Delivery team at Tesla, assisting the most customers in the first half of 2022, most productive agent in the first half of 2022, collaborating with field teams to be a trusted point of contact and resolve customer concerns in a timely manner. (2022)
• Self starter: Served 289 customers via social media & email for my dumpling business. Optimized production operations to reach 12,100 dumplings made by hand with a team of two in 6 months. Reached an average order size of 98.61$ in our peak production week. Includes: follow-up, asking for testimonials, team building requests, replying to customers, asking for referrals, content creation and website design. (2021)
• Trusted partner & educator: Coached a fitness bootcamp owner in Cyprus to make $25,976 within 40 days via social media, starting from scratch, zero followers, and zero ad spend. Taught my marketing philosophy to 6 Facebook entrepreneurial groups and 5 in-person events as a guest speaker (NYC, Montreal, UK, Cyprus). (2019)

Special skills

• Resilient - I adapt to new changes quickly and absorb critical feedback to improve.
• Independent - I'm resourceful with limited information and relentless to find a way.
• Patient - I have a long term outlook on projects with a bias towards action.
• Empowering & Genuine - I support my team to succeed and collaborate.

Bio

2022+: Virtual Sales & Delivery Advisor at Tesla: Excelled in key performance indicators for several weeks in a row. First ever agent of the week. Consistent top performer of my team. Assisting pre and post-order customers for all of Canada. Collaborating with field & virtual teams to resolve conerns fast.

2021: Co-Founded Dumpling Nation. Created plant-based dumplings inspired by flavours from around the world - along with sauce pairings. Produced & sold 12,100 handmade vegan dumplings within 6 months with a team of two. Partnered with vegan online retailer Marche57 . We stopped production in August due to heavy labour. || Started working at Tesla in Virtual Sales in October.

2016+: Founded Triple Your Tribe to help entrepreneurs market their businesses via social media. Worked with hundreds of business owners in the fitness space and other industries. I've grown over 240,000 followers for my client accounts and I've helped create over $250,000 dollars in direct results from my organic strategies & methods. Researched opportunities to maximize local and online awareness through hashtag reports and full account audits. I've also hosted group challenges with over 600 participants, and curated a private members-only group for over 2 years. Offered services including: Full Account Audits, Hashtag researches and generators, 1-1 coaching, content planning and instructional courses.

2013 - 2014: Design Engineer-In-Training in R&D at Seed Hawk. Updated and adapted innovative designs to large, multi-million dollar farming equipment for future product lines using CAD modeling & drawings while coordinating with the entire team through all processes. For outsourcing & in-house.

2008 - 2012: B. Eng Mechanical at McGill University in Montreal. Worked part-time at Apple as a back of house specialist for 11 months. Here's also where me and 3 undergraduates built a selective laser sintering table, as part of 3D Printer. We successfully designed and built it ahead of schedule, with a budget of $3,000.

2011: B. Eng Mechanical semester abroad at National University of Singapore.

Misc

• Ship 30 for 30: publish 30 atomic essays in 30 days link
• Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Purple belt under Ron Pattyn from West Island Jiu Jitsu in Montreal.
• I wrote 4 short western fiction books under my pen name 'Ray Gallagher' on Amazon link
• Some of my favorite books are: Delivering Happiness, Relentless, The Little Prince, Goodbye Things, Mindset Matters Most, Profit First, The Elon Musk Blog Series from waitbutwhy.